EP2820772A1 - Radio base station and method therein for transmitting a data signal to a user equipment in a radio communications network - Google Patents
Radio base station and method therein for transmitting a data signal to a user equipment in a radio communications networkInfo
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Definitions
- Embodiments herein relate to a radio base station and a method therein.
- embodiments herein relate to transmit a data signal to a user equipment in a radio communications network.
- a radio communications network comprises radio base stations providing radio coverage over at least one respective geographical area forming a cell.
- User equipments are served in the cells by the respective radio base station and are communicating with respective radio base station.
- the user equipments transmit data over an air interface to the radio base stations in uplink (UL) transmissions and the radio base stations transmit data to the user equipments in downlink (DL) transmissions.
- Multi-antenna techniques may significantly increase the data rates and reliability of a wireless communication system. The performance is in particular improved if both the transmitter and the receiver are equipped with multiple antennas, which results in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication channel.
- MIMO multiple-input multiple-output
- Such systems and/or related techniques are commonly referred to as MIMO.
- the LTE standard is currently evolving with enhanced MIMO support.
- a core component in LTE is the support of MIMO antenna deployments and MIMO related techniques. For instance there is in LTE-Advanced support for a spatial multiplexing mode with possibly channel dependent precoding.
- the spatial multiplexing mode is aimed for high data rates in favorable channel conditions.
- An illustration of the spatial multiplexing operation is provided in Figure 1.
- An information carrying symbol vector s is multiplied by an W T x f precoder matrix W N ⁇ xr , which serves to distribute the transmit energy in a subspace of the N T (corresponding to N T antenna ports) dimensional vector space.
- the precoder matrix is typically selected from a codebook of possible precoder matrices, and typically indicated by means of a precoder matrix indicator (PMI), which specifies a unique precoder matrix in the codebook for a given number of symbol streams.
- PMI precoder matrix indicator
- the r symbols in s each correspond to a layer and r is referred to as the transmission rank.
- the precoded signals are then Inverse Fast Fourier Transformed (I FFT).
- LTE uses Orthogonal frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) in the downlink, and
- DFT Discrete Fourier Transform
- eflower is a noise/interference vector obtained as realizations of a random process.
- the precoder matrix may be a wideband precoder, which is constant over frequency, or frequency selective.
- the signals above, e.g. y n may alternatively represent a signal in a time-domain. It is generally understood that signals mentioned may represent signals in other domains than in the time-frequency grid of an OFDM system.
- the MIMO channel matrix H H
- channel dependent precoding This is also commonly referred to as closed-loop precoding and essentially strives for focusing the transmit energy into a subspace which is strong in the sense of conveying much of the transmitted energy to the UE.
- the precoder matrix may also be selected to strive for orthogonalizing the channel, meaning that after proper linear equalization at the UE, the inter-layer interference is reduced.
- the UE transmits, based on channel measurements in the forward link (downlink), recommendations to the radio base station of a suitable precoder to use.
- the UE selects a precoder out of a countable and finite set of precoder alternatives, referred to as a precoder codebook.
- a single precoder that is supposed to cover a large bandwidth, wideband precoding, may be fed back. It may also be beneficial to match the frequency variations of the channel and instead feed back a frequency-selective precoding report, e.g. several precoders, one per subband of the large bandwidth.
- CSI Channel State Information
- CQIs Channel Quality Indicators
- Rl transmission Rank Indicator
- the radio base station is selecting precoder(s) and transmission rank and thereafter signals the selected precoder that the UE is supposed to use.
- the precoder 2 Tx Codebook comprises a total of six precoders
- LTE Release-10 supports a transmission mode for up to 8-layer spatial multiplexing for 8 Tx antenna ports using UE specific Reference Signal (RS), also referred to as a 8 Tx precoder codebook.
- An antenna port may not necessary correspond to a physical antenna but may also correspond to multiple antennas.
- Rank adaptation and possibly channel dependent precoding is also supported.
- UE specific RS is used for demodulation purposes and because of that the radio base station is free to use whatever precoder(s) it wants to, but it may be assisted in the determination of precoder(s) via CSI feedback from the UE that includes recommended precoder(s).
- the UE selects a precoder out of a set of possible precoders in a precoder codebook.
- the available precoders in the precoder codebook are of a special factorized structure; a precoder may be written as a product of two matrix factors
- the parameter k is in LTE taken to be equal to four for rank 1 and 2. Further details concerning the LTE codebook are found in 3GPP TS 36.213 V10.4.0, "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Physical layer procedures" section 7.2 and 3GPP TS 36.211 v10.3.0 section 6.3.4.2.3.
- CSI-RS channel state information reference signals
- the UE can estimate the channel and consequently also figure out which precoder suits the particular channel.
- the UE assumes that each of the rows in x 8xl corresponds to an antenna port, ports 15 - 22, on which a CSI- RS is transmitted.
- the first row represents antenna port 15, second row antenna port 16 and so on.
- Each CSI-RS is typically transmitted from an antenna of its own, meaning that there is a direct correspondence between an antenna port and a physical antenna.
- the design target of the 8 antenna-port LTE codebook was an 8 Tx antenna array with either four closely spaced cross-poles or eight closely spaced co-poles placed in a uniform and linear fashion.
- the first four rows of W 8 ( x c ⁇ will target a first polarization (they are all co-polarized) and the remaining four antennas target a polarization orthogonal to the former polarization.
- beamforming is conducted separately for each polarization followed by precoding between polarizations.
- all the eight rows of matrix will be used to perform beamforming in one polarization. Beamforming is achieved by controlling phase and relative amplitude of the signal at each active transmitting antennas by combining elements in an antenna array in a way where signals at particular angles experience constructive interference and while others experience destructive interference.
- FIG. 2(a)-(b) Some typical antenna array constellations are illustrated in Figures 2(a)-(b). For instance, one common antenna array layout is to use co-polarized antennas in order to construct antenna arrays as shown in Figure 2(a). Furthermore, another common layout is to instead use cross-polarized antennas as shown in Figure 2(b).
- Figure 2(a) shows 1 Tx, 2 Tx and 4 Tx co-polarized antenna arrays and
- Figure 2(b) shows 2 Tx, 4 Tx and 8 Tx cross-polarized antenna arrays.
- a 2 Tx cross-polarized antenna array e.g. the top most antenna setup in Figure
- Figure 3 shows an illustration of codebook based precoding based with a 2 Tx cross-polarized antenna array.
- An active antenna array comprises a number of sub elements or small physical devices that jointly form the active transmitting antenna.
- a sub element in practice realized by a small physical device, is illustrated. Each sub element will have a polarization direction which potentially may be orthogonal to another sub element's polarization. This is illustrated in Figure 4(b) where a sub element with orthogonal polarization compared to the sub element in Figure 4(a) is shown.
- an active antenna array which comprises N c sub elements is shown. In general, but not necessarily, all the sub elements of an active transmitting antenna of an active antenna array are of the same polarization.
- each given sub element j can be fed the given signal x ) not necessarily equal to x (,) , which is a signal for the active transmitting antenna i.
- Figure 4(a) shows a sub element
- Figure 4(b) shows a sub element in the polarization orthogonal to the polarization of the sub element in Figure 4(a);
- x ; [ ; (1) K ; (iV ) f , where i is the active transmitting antenna, and N c is the sub elements of the active transmitting antenna.
- an 8 Tx antenna array can be created.
- the signals ⁇ ( 2 1) are no longer explicitly shown but they are still assumed to be present in the same manner as in Figure 5(a).
- Figure 5(a) thus depicts a 2 Tx active antenna array and
- Figure 5(b) depicts an 8 Tx active antenna array.
- precoder codebooks in different standards have been designed for conventional antenna arrays.
- precoder codebooks for 2, 4 or 8 Tx antenna ports are supported.
- the standard supports the use of the 2 Tx codebook meaning that x l and x 2 can be fed to the antenna array just as in Figure 3.
- An active antenna array comprises many sub elements and arrays of active antennas comprise even more. Such antenna setups were neither thought of, nor taken into account, when the existing codebooks were designed. Therefore, existing precoder codebooks do not utilize the fact that the sub elements can be accessed and fed with a signal as illustrated in Figure 5.
- An object of embodiments herein is to enable an efficient and reliable use of an active antenna array in a radio communications network.
- the object is achieved by a method in a radio base station for transmitting a data signal to a user equipment in a radio communications network.
- the radio base station is connected to an active antenna array of a number of active transmitting antennas and the radio base station serves the user equipment in the radio communications network. Furthermore, each active transmitting antenna comprises sub elements.
- the radio base station transforms a precoded data signal using a
- the radio base station then transmits the transformed data signal over at least one sub element to the user equipment, which transmitted data signal is enabled to be directed vertically.
- the transformed data signal is further limited to be transmitted in a direction within a range of elevation angles.
- a radio base station for transmitting a data signal to the user equipment in the radio communications network.
- the radio base station is configured to connect to an active antenna array of a number of active transmitting antennas and configured to serve the user equipment in the radio communications network. Furthermore, each active transmitting antenna of the active antenna array comprises sub elements.
- the radio base station comprises a transforming circuit configured to transform a precoded data signal using a transformation, which transformation directs signals vertically.
- the radio base station further comprises a transmitter configured to transmit the transformed data signal over at least one sub element to the user equipment, which transmitted data signal is enabled to be directed vertically.
- the radio base station is configured to limit the transmission of the transformed data signal in a direction within a range of elevation angles.
- Some embodiments herein further deal with restricting up-tilt and exploiting existing codebook based precoder feedback purely designed and intended for precoding in the horizontal plane for a certain number of Tx antennas to assist in precoding signals for an active antenna array with a different number of Tx antennas.
- Figure 1 is a transmission structure of precoded spatial multiplexing mode in LTE
- Figures 2a-b are illustrations of a number of TX antennas of different polarization
- Figure 3 is a block diagram depicting a radio base station
- FIGS. 4a-c are illustrations of sub elements of active transmitting antennas
- Figures 5a-b are illustrations of active antenna arrays of a number of active transmitting antennas
- Figure 6 is a schematic overview depicting a radio communications network
- Figure 7 is a combined flowchart and signaling scheme according to embodiments herein
- Figure 8 is a block diagram depicting a mapping of active transmitting antenna ports to sub elements of active transmitting antennas
- Figure 9 is a flowchart depicting a method according to embodiments herein, and Figure 10 is a block diagram depicting the radio base station according to
- Figure 6 is a schematic overview depicting embodiments in a radio
- the radio communications network comprises a radio base station 12 providing radio coverage over at least one
- a user equipment 10 is served in the cell by the radio base station 12 and is communicating with the radio base station 12.
- the user equipment 10 transmits data over an air or radio interface to the radio base station 12 in uplink (UL) transmissions and the radio base station 12 transmits data over an air or radio interface to the user equipment 10 in downlink (DL) transmissions.
- UL uplink
- DL downlink
- the radio base station 12 comprises an active antenna array of a number of transmitting (Tx) antennas, which active transmitting antenna comprises a number of sub elements.
- the sub elements may be cross polarized relative one another and arranged along a vertical axis or vertically.
- the radio base station 12 transforms a precoded data signal using a transformation, which transformation directs signals vertically. This may be done by transforming data signals that have been precoded using a precoder, which precoder diversifies the data signal in an azimuth domain, and the transformation redirects the precoding signals vertically.
- the radio base station 12 then transmits the transformed data signal over at least one sub element to the user equipment 10.
- the transformed data signal is limited to be transmitted in a direction within a range of elevation angles.
- An elevation angle may be defined in relation to a centre plane or a centre axis C of a sub element transmitting the transformed data signal.
- the range may e.g. be between 10° - 75° from the centre axis or a horizontal line of the active antenna array or of a sub element over which the data signal is transmitted.
- the interval of elevation angles may reach between a lower angle ort and an upper angle a2.
- the lower angle a1 may be set to restrict an up-tilt of the transformed data signal along a first line L1 thereby reducing or omitting energy interfering transmissions at a neighbouring radio base station.
- the upper angle a2 may be set along a second line L2.
- the upper angle a2 may not be set at all and the interval may be defined solely on the lower angle a1.
- the radio base station 12 may transmit the 5 data signal or actually a number of data signals forming a beam 16 towards the user equipment 10, avoiding transmitting an up-tilted beam 17, which would likely interfering transmissions in a neighbouring cell.
- the elevation angle may alternatively be defined in relation to a centre axis CA of the active antenna array, denoted as ⁇ in the Figure 7. Then the threshold or the end/top angle in the range, e.g. to
- the first line L1 would be a high elevation angle value that would limit the data signal towards other cells.
- the range may stretch from 0 - 85°.
- the radio base station 12 may diversify and direct, or beamform, data signals vertically or along an elevation axis, denoted ⁇ ' in the Figure 6, towards the user equipment 10 based on feedback from the user equipment 10.
- ⁇ ' elevation axis
- 15 data signal is enabled to be directed vertically with an increased received signal strength at the UE and a reduced interference towards neighbouring cells.
- Embodiments herein inform the user equipment 10 to decide feedback and e.g. precoder to use on reference signals or reference beams for elevation beamforming with an up tilt restriction. This may be performed during configuration of the user equipment
- embodiments avoid that this choice is made on an opportunistic basis only taking into account the impact on a single link from the radio base station 12 to the user equipment 10.
- embodiments herein avoid that beams are selected which seem to maximize the performance of the link but is harmful to the performance of the entire system. Beams may be selected with sufficient down-tilt so that not too much transmitted
- the radio base station 12 may limit which precoders the user equipment 10 may select from the configured precoder codebook so as to avoid transmitting energy in directions with too little down-tilt.
- the radio base station 12 may for example use a mechanism of codebook subset restriction to forbid the user equipment 10 to report
- a threshold level, or a top angle, in the angular domain, herein called elevation angle domain, could be used to exclude precoders whose main data signal or beam is considered to be pointing too much upwards.
- the phase and amplitude over the sub elements defines the elevation angle and thus the chosen precoder will also affect the
- a good rule of thumb may be to set the threshold level or a lower/top angle of a range of elevation angles so that the beams or data signals do not point above an optimized beam direction of a fixed beam solution that would have been used when active antennas are not used.
- An indexed ordering of the precoders in the precoder codebook may be introduced, and the user equipment 10 may be configured to exclude certain precoders from the allowed set of precoders when reporting feedback.
- DFT Discrete Fourier Transform
- the threshold level or end angle of the range of elevation angles may also be made dependent on the system load; a low system load would allow beams pointing more upwards, and the opposite is true for the case of higher system load. In general, use of directions with less down-tilt should be more limited the higher the system load is.
- Vertically or vertical direction is defined as aligned with a gradient of the gravity field, i.e., with the direction of the gravitational force at a position of the user equipment 10.
- the vertical axis being an axis aligned with a normal to a surface plane of the radio base station 12 or the user equipment 10.
- UE is a non-limiting term which means any wireless device or node e.g. Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), laptop, mobile, sensor, relay, mobile tablets or even a small base station that are being positioned, i.e. a Location Server (LCS) target in general.
- PDA Personal Digital Assistant
- LCD Location Server
- the radio base station 12 may also be referred to as e.g. a NodeB, an evolved Node B (eNB, eNode B), a base transceiver station, Access Point Base Station, base station router, or any other network unit capable to communicate with the user equipment 10 within the cell or cells served by the radio base station 12 depending e.g. of the radio access technology and terminology used.
- the radio base station 12 may also be referred to as a relay node or a beacon node.
- the data signal may be a part of a beam of data signals and the method applies also for a plurality of data signals.
- FIG. 7 is a combined flowchart and signaling scheme in the radio
- the actions may be performed in any suitable order.
- Action 701. The radio base station 12 transmits configuration data to the user equipment 10 configuring which precoder codebook is used and which precoders to report feedback of.
- the radio base station 12 informs or orders the user equipment 10 to report only for a sub set of precoders in the precoder codebook in order to limit the transmissions within the range of elevation angles also known as codebook subset restriction.
- Some embodiments uses the elevation angle restriction when using the 8 Tx precoder codebook in LTE-Advanced with a 2 Tx, vertical, active antenna array in order to perform elevation beamforming with adjustable beams. More precisely, consider a 2 Tx antenna array as illustrated in Figure 5(a) where each active transmitting antenna has 8 sub elements. Assume that the cross-polarized sub element pairs are placed along the vertical axis.
- each row in x 16xl correspond to one sub element and that the first 8 elements correspond to one polarization whereas the other elements
- the signal x 8xl is then created just as if the system was using the 8 Tx precoder codebook. Hence, when transmitting CSI-RS x 8xl will correspond to the CSI-RS signals produced when using the 8 Tx precoder codebook.
- some of the used precoders may cause a beamforming vector with insufficient down-tilt. This is on the other hand possible to predict during the design of the system and by making use of the suggested codebook subset restriction approach these precoders may be eliminated.
- the user equipment 10 configures itself according to the received configuration data.
- Action 703. The radio base station 12 transforms reference signals to be diversified and directed along the vertical axis or the elevation axis E. A set of reference symbols is defined in the radio base station 12. Each reference signal is then transformed and fed to a respective sub element. The transformation transforms the reference signals into a different number of signals corresponding to a number of sub elements and maps the transformed signals to the elements according to a pattern also referred to as a mapping pattern.
- the radio base station 12 transmits the transformed reference signals to the user equipment 10.
- the user equipment 10 determines channel quality of the different reference signals and determines e.g. a recommended precoder from the precoder codebook. Based on the reference signals, the user equipment 10 may determine a recommended transmission hypothesis, e.g. a recommended rank, a recommended precoder to use, and a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) channel quality indicator.
- a recommended transmission hypothesis e.g. a recommended rank, a recommended precoder to use
- CQI Channel Quality Indicator
- the user equipment transmits an indicator of the determined channel quality such as a CQI, and the recommended precoder to the radio base station 12 in CSI.
- the user equipment 10 transmits a recommended transmission hypothesis to the base station 12.
- the transmission hypothesis may comprise an indicator of a
- the radio base station 12 receives the recommended transmission hypothesis comprising e.g. the channel quality, the CQI, and the recommended precoder from the user equipment 10. Based on the received recommended transmission hypothesis, and/or a locally stored parameter, such as received transmission hypotheses from other user equipments', the radio base station 12 makes a scheduling decision where the radio base station 12 selects which precoder to use.
- the radio base station 12 comprises a precoder codebook for a number, N T , Tx antennas or for a number, N T , of active transmitting antenna ports.
- the radio base station 12 comprises an active antenna array of an 'A' number, N A , active transmitting antennas where each active transmitting antenna comprises a 'C number, N c , of sub elements.
- the radio base station 12 is in general not designed for precoding for the general case of (N A , N c ). According to some
- N T T the number of transmitting, Tx, antenna ports
- N T Tx codebook the number of transmitting antennas and sub elements
- Some embodiments herein reuse an existing N T Tx codebook for a 2 Tx cross- polarized active antenna array.
- N T Tx precoder codebook with an active antenna array of e.g. 2 Tx antennas that are cross-polarized in order to perform elevation beamforming, despite the fact that the precoder codebook was neither designed nor intended to be used by such a 2 Tx active antenna array deployment. More precisely, consider a 2 Tx active antenna array as illustrated in Figure 5a.
- the radio base station 12 then precodes the data signal using the determined precoder and transforms the precoded data signal.
- the determined or selected precoder is actually directing the transmission of the data signal vertically as the transformation used for both the reference signals and the data signal directs the different signals vertically according to an elevation angle.
- the radio base station 12 directs or beamforms the data signal or signals forming a beam vertically adjustable toward the user equipment 10.
- the effective channel including the transformation may be estimated by the user equipment 10 and the proper precoder may be determined.
- An antenna port to sub element mapping of the transformation is described in detail in Figure 8.
- the radio base station 12 may limit the direction of the data signal in the transformation.
- the transformation excludes directions in the transformed precoded data signal that is outside the range of elevation angles.
- the resulting angles from the transformation are analysed and determined in the design of such a system This is done by designing the transformation in such a way that sufficient down-tilt is always ensured, i.e. through the designed antenna port to sub element mapping.
- This example is described when using the 8 Tx precoder codebook in LTE- Advanced with a 2 Tx, vertical, active antenna array in order to perform elevation beamforming with adjustable beams. More precisely, consider a 2 Tx antenna array as illustrated in Figure 5(a) where each active transmitting antenna has N c sub elements. Assume that the cross-polarized sub element pairs are placed along the vertical axis.
- the radio base station 12 then transmits the transformed data signal that is precoded using the selected precoder.
- the radio base station 12 comprising an active antenna array of a number of active transmitting antennas directs the data signal towards the user equipment 10, based on feedback from the user equipment 10, in a direction vertically in a reliable and efficient manner
- Figure 8 is a block diagram depicting part of the transformation as a mapping of the sub elements and the active transmitting antenna ports via functions transforming the N T signals from the active transmitting antenna ports into N c signals per active transmitting antenna, thus N A active transmitting antennas times N c sub elements in total.
- the cross-polarized sub element pairs are placed along a vertical axis in the radio base station 12.
- N defines the active transmitting antenna port, and the placing and order of the signals are tied to the order for the eight antenna ports of the Channel State Information - Reference Signals (CSI-RS) in e.g. LTE.
- CSI-RS Channel State Information - Reference Signals
- the transformation functions f / and f ⁇ define a active transmitting antenna port to sub element mapping that is used both when x # xl comprises data and associated reference signals.
- these mappings would be linear.
- These mappings may also be used to alter the shape of data signals or beam of data signals and also to make sure all sub elements are used in case the number of sub elements per polarization in a active transmitting antenna is larger than the number of active transmitting antenna ports, corresponding to the precoder codebook, divided by two, i.e. N T 12.
- the side lobe levels of the DFT based precoders in the 8 Tx precoder codebook may be undesirably high for elevation tilting purposes and a properly designed mapping may be helpful in alleviating that.
- embodiments herein enable elevation direction, or beamforming, with a 2 Tx active antenna array, by using a transformation comprising a mapping as described by the transformation functions f / and f ⁇ and in action 708 above.
- Embodiments herein allow precoder feedback from the user equipment 10 to be used for guiding beamforming in the elevation domain for the specific user equipment 10 using active antennas in the active antenna array even if only existing codebooks that are not designed for the purpose are available.
- embodiments provide a solution for reusing a precoder codebook, designed for some certain purpose, in another context. This is done by some embodiments making it possible to transform signals output from a precoder codebook into signals emulating output of another precoder codebook by using a special active transmitting antenna port to sub element mapping.
- the radio base station 12 serves the user equipment 10 in the radio
- the radio base station 12 is connected to an active antenna array of, or comprising, a number of active transmitting antennas, wherein each active transmitting antenna comprises sub elements.
- the radio base station 12 maps or the radio base station 12 is actually configured to map the number of transmission antenna ports to the sub elements of each active transmitting antenna according to a pattern. I.e., connections for data signals from the output of the precoder and reference signals to sub elements of the active antenna array are established.
- the radio base station 12 configures the user equipment to report feedback only for a subset of precoders in the precoder codebook.
- the subset of precoders limits the transformed data signal to be transmitted in the direction within the range of elevation angles. Also, this may be used to decrease the variation of power level transmitted to each sub element of the radio base station 12.
- the radio base station 12 transforms reference signals using the transformation, which transformation directs the reference signals vertically.
- Vertically herein means that signals, any input signals, input to the transformation is separated along a vertical axis being aligned with a normal of a plane parallel with a surface of the earth.
- the transformation may map data signals from the number of transmission antenna ports to the sub elements of each active transmitting antenna according to the configured pattern.
- the signals may e.g. use the configured mapping to divert the signals vertically, wherein the mapping or pattern may have been configured in action 900 during design and analysis.
- the radio base station 12 may transmit the transformed reference signals over the sub elements.
- the radio base station 12 may further receive feedback, from the user equipment 10.
- the feedback indicates channel quality information and a recommended precoder in the precoder codebook based on the transmitted reference signals.
- the radio base station 12 may select the precoder out of the precoders in the precoder codebook to use for the transformed data signal based on the received feedback. The selection may further rely on recommended precoders and feedback from other user equipments or similar.
- the radio base station 12 precodes the data signal with a precoder from a precoder codebook.
- the precoder codebook comprises precoders for transmitting signals in a diversified manner over a number of transmission antenna ports.
- the precoder codebook may be an 8 Tx Codebook for diversifying signals in the azimuth domain.
- the number of active transmitting antennas is two and the number of transmission antenna ports is eight.
- the precoder codebook may comprise a factorized precoder structure for eight transmission antenna ports.
- the factorized precoder structure may in some embodiments be decomposed into one factor having an effect of performing a beamforming, based on a Discrete Fourier Transform process, over two groups of sub elements, and another factor that has an effect of altering a relative phase of transmissions between the two groups of sub elements.
- the radio base station 12 transforms the precoded data signal using a transformation, which transformation directs signals vertically.
- the transformation may limit the transformed data signal to be transmitted in the direction within the range of elevation angles.
- the sub elements may comprise first sub elements polarized according to a first polarization and second sub elements polarized according to a second polarization.
- the transformation maps data signals from the number of transmission antenna ports to the sub elements of each active transmitting antenna according to the pattern.
- the transformation may be separately performed for data signals for each polarization of sub elements, and thus mapped to the first and second sub elements.
- the radio base station 12 takes a A/ r port of N T dimensions signal, such as CSI-RS or precoded data signal and applies the transformation.
- the transformation further takes the N A x N c signal values and maps them to the Nc sub elements of each active transmitting antenna according to the pattern that diversifies the transmissions of the data signal or CSI-RS.
- the transformation may transform precoded data signals or reference signals of a first number into a second number of signals for the sub elements, wherein the first and second numbers differ. The second number of signals are then mapped to sub elements of each active transmitting antenna.
- the radio base station 12 transmits the transformed data signal over at least one sub element to the user equipment 10.
- the transmitted data signal is enabled to be directed vertically.
- the transformed data signal is limited to be transmitted in a direction within a range of elevation angles. E.g. not over an elevation angle defined from the centre axis CA of the active antenna array or not below an elevation angle defined from the, horizontal, centre axis C of a sub element.
- reference signals or data signals of four antenna ports are transmitted on the sub elements having one polarization and the reference signals or data signals of the last four antenna ports are transmitted on the remaining sub elements of a different polarization, which different polarization is orthogonal to the one polarization.
- the radio base station 12 may limit the direction by e.g. configuring feedback or in the transformation in actions 907 and/or 902.
- the radio base station 12 uses the precoder selected in action 905 and then the action 907 directs the data signal vertically when transmitting the data signal.
- a shape of a beam of transformed data signals may be tapered in order to further control and reduce the interference towards a neighbouring cell.
- FIG. 10 is a block diagram depicting a radio base station 12 for transmitting the data signal to the user equipment 10 according to some embodiment herein.
- the radio base station 12 is configured to connect to an active antenna array of a number of active transmitting antennas, and to serve the user equipment 10 in the radio communications network.
- Each active transmitting antenna comprises sub elements.
- the radio base station 12 comprises a transforming circuit 1001 configured to transform a precoded data signal using a transformation, which transformation directs signals vertically.
- the radio base station 12 comprises a transmitter 1002 configured to transmit the transformed data signal over at least one sub element to the user equipment 10.
- the transmitted data signal is enabled to be directed vertically, and the radio base station 12 is configured to limit the transmission of the transformed data signal in a direction within a range of elevation angles.
- the transformation is configured to limit the transformed data signal to be transmitted in the direction within the range of elevation angles.
- the radio base station 12 may further comprise a precoding circuit 1003 configured to precode the data signal with a precoder from a precoder codebook.
- the precoder codebook comprises precoders for transmitting signals in a diversified manner over a number of transmission antenna ports.
- the number of active transmitting antennas may be two and the number of transmission antenna ports may be eight.
- the precoder codebook may comprise a factorized precoder structure for eight transmission antenna ports, and in some embodiments factors in the factorized precoder structure is
- reference signals or data signals of four antenna ports may be transmitted on the sub elements having one polarization and the reference signals or data signals of the last four antenna ports may be transmitted on the remaining sub elements of a different polarization, which different polarization is orthogonal to the one polarization.
- the transforming circuit 1001 is configured to map the transformed data signals to the sub elements of each active transmitting antenna according to a pattern.
- the transformation may transform the number of signals from the precoder, e.g. 8 signals, into a greater number, e.g. for 7 sub element for each active transmitting antenna i.e. 14 signals, and then map the transformed signals to the sub elements.
- the pattern may be pre-configured from an analysis analysing signals and directions during design.
- the transforming circuit 1001 is further configured to transform reference signals using the transformation, which transformation directs the reference signals vertically.
- the transmitter 1002 may then be configured to transmit the transformed reference signals over the sub elements.
- the radio base station 12 may in some embodiments then comprise a receiver 1004 configured to receive feedback, from the user equipment 10, indicating channel quality information and a recommended precoder in the precoder codebook based on the transmitted reference signals.
- the radio base station 12 may also comprise a selecting circuit 1005 configured to select a precoder out of the precoders in the precoder codebook to use for the transformed data signal based on the received feedback.
- the precoding circuit 1003 may then be configured to use the selected precoder, and the transmitter 1002 may be configured to transmit the data signal directed vertically towards the user equipment 10.
- the radio base station 12 comprises a configuring circuit 1006 adapted to configure the user equipment 10 to report feedback only for a subset of precoders in the precoder codebook.
- the subset of precoders limits the transformed data signal to be transmitted in the direction within the range of elevation angles.
- the sub elements comprise first sub elements polarized according to a first polarization and second sub elements polarized according to a second polarization.
- the transforming circuit 1001 may then be further configured to transform data signals separately for each polarization of sub elements.
- the radio base station 12 may be configured to taper a beam of a number of transformed data signals by altering a transmission power of the sub elements or in the transformation.
- the embodiments herein for transmitting the data signal to the user equipment 10 may be implemented through one or more processors, such as a processing circuit 1007 in the radio base station 12 depicted in Figure 10, together with computer program code for performing the functions and/or method actions of the embodiments herein.
- the program code mentioned above may also be provided as a computer program product, for instance in the form of a data carrier carrying computer program code for performing embodiments herein when being loaded into the radio base station 12.
- One such carrier may be in the form of a CD ROM disc. It is however feasible with other data carriers such as a memory stick.
- the computer program code may furthermore be provided as pure program code on a server and downloaded to the radio base station 12.
- circuits may refer to a combination of analog and digital circuits, and/or one or more processors configured with software and/or firmware, e.g., stored in memory, that, when executed by the one or more processors, perform as described above.
- processors as well as the other digital hardware, may be included in a single application- specific integrated circuit (ASIC), or several processors and various digital hardware may be distributed among several separate components, whether individually packaged or assembled into a system-on-a-chip (SoC).
- ASIC application- specific integrated circuit
- SoC system-on-a-chip
- the radio base station 12 may comprise a memory 1008.
- the memory 1008 may comprise one or more memory units and may be used to store for example data such as threshold values, ranges of elevation angles, precoder codebooks, applications to perform the methods herein when being executed on the radio base station 12 or similar.
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